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Phyllis Dillon
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Country
- Jamaica
- Active from
- 1944
- Active to
- 2004
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Phyllis Dillon (27 December 1944 — 15 April 2004) was a Jamaican ska and reggae singer who recorded for Duke Reid's lucrative Treasure Isle record label in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Dillon was born in 1944 in Linstead, St. Catherine, Jamaica.[1] Influenced by American singers Connie Francis, Patti Page and Dionne Warwick, she began singing in talent contests. It was during a performance at the Glass Bucket Club in Kingston, Jamaica with the group The Vulcans, that Duke Reid's session guit
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Phyllis
- Family name
- Dillon
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Jamaica
- Place of birth
- Saint Catherine Parish
- Place of death
- Long Island
- Occupation
- singer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Order of Distinction
- Field of work
- popular music
- Genre
- ska
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Trojan Records
- Official website
- de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Dillon
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- cause of death
- cancer
- date of death
- 2004-04-15
- manner of death
- natural causes
- date of birth
- 1944-12-27
- start of work period
- 1971-00-00
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